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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
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So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
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We children learned responsibility automatically.
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
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Actors never discuss future plans.
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I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
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If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
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Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
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You don't build a bond without being present.
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